I have to admire the Diocese of Niagara’s chutzpah

A short while after I was served with a statement of claim demanding $400,000 for damaging the bishop’s reputation, I received a letter from him inviting me to contribute to his diocesan fundraiser. It begins with a nice photo of the bishop:

Begging Letter

On the assumption that I will no longer be able to afford my own stamp, it even comes with a pre-paid envelope.

5 thoughts on “I have to admire the Diocese of Niagara’s chutzpah

  1. It’s like the right hand, doesn’t know what the left hand did…or it’s another slap in the face…either way, just odd and gutsy!!

  2. Are there some restrictions on him contacting you directly? Does this personal letter from him somehow compromise his position in the lawsuit? If you send in $10 does that somehow complicate his case? (Those are rhetorical questions, perhaps best not answered in this forum). I have no idea, but maybe this letter could be a vehicle for grace?

    We’re rooting for you!

  3. One third goes directly to support local outreach in your own congregation.

    Isn’t that sweet that he will donate to an ANiC group.

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    And of course he followed Matthew Chapter 18 first.

    15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

    16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

    17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

    Nothing there about lawyers, injunctions and damages or is there a new translation from previously unknown Greek?

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